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As generative AI (GAI) tools become increasingly integrated into workplace environments, it is essential to measure their impact on productivity across specific domains. This study evaluates the effects of Microsoft's Security Copilot…

General Economics · Economics 2024-11-13 James Bono , Alec Xu

[Context] AI assistants, like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, are transforming software engineering. While several studies highlight productivity improvements, their impact on maintainability requires further investigation. [Objective] This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Markus Borg , Dave Hewett , Nadim Hagatulah , Noric Couderc , Emma Söderberg , Donald Graham , Uttam Kini , Dave Farley

Knowledge transfer is fundamental to human collaboration and is therefore common in software engineering. Pair programming is a prominent instance. With the rise of AI coding assistants, developers now not only work with human partners but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alisa Welter , Niklas Schneider , Tobias Dick , Kallistos Weis , Christof Tinnes , Marvin Wyrich , Sven Apel

GitHub Copilot, an extension for the Visual Studio Code development environment powered by the large-scale language model Codex, makes automatic program synthesis available for software developers. This model has been extensively studied in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Dominik Sobania , Martin Briesch , Franz Rothlauf

Modern code generation tools utilizing AI models like Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained increased popularity due to their ability to produce functional code. However, their usage presents security challenges, often resulting in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yujia Fu , Peng Liang , Amjed Tahir , Zengyang Li , Mojtaba Shahin , Jiaxin Yu , Jinfu Chen

This paper explores the integration of AI tools, such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, in the Software Architecture for Embedded Systems course. AI-supported workflows enabled students to rapidly prototype complex projects, emphasizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Giovanni Adorni , Daniele Grosso

Recent advancements in large language models, including GPT-4 and its variants, and Generative AI-assisted coding tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Tabnine, have significantly transformed software development. This paper analyzes how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Vijay Joshi , Iver Band

As AI-powered code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot become popular, it is crucial to understand software developers' trust in AI tools -- a key factor for tool adoption and responsible usage. However, we know little about how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ruotong Wang , Ruijia Cheng , Denae Ford , Thomas Zimmermann

Generative AI (GenAI) has fundamentally changed how knowledge workers, such as software developers, solve tasks and collaborate to build software products. Introducing innovative tools like ChatGPT and Copilot has created new opportunities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Rasmus Ulfsnes , Nils Brede Moe , Viktoria Stray , Marianne Skarpen

AI-based code assistants are promising tools that can facilitate and speed up code development. They exploit machine learning algorithms and natural language processing to interact with developers, suggesting code snippets (e.g., method…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Vincenzo Corso , Leonardo Mariani , Daniela Micucci , Oliviero Riganelli

This paper aims to evaluate GitHub Copilot's generated code quality based on the LeetCode problem set using a custom automated framework. We evaluate the results of Copilot for 4 programming languages: Java, C++, Python3 and Rust. We aim to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ilja Siroš , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

GitHub Copilot is an artificial intelligence model for automatically generating source code from natural language problem descriptions. Since June 2022, Copilot has officially been available for free to all students as a plug-in to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Paul Denny , Viraj Kumar , Nasser Giacaman

Our everyday lives now heavily rely on artificial intelligence (AI) powered large language models (LLMs). Like regular users, programmers are also benefiting from the newest large language models. In response to the critical role that AI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Md Kamrul Siam , Huanying Gu , Jerry Q. Cheng

The rapid integration of AI-powered coding assistants into developer workflows has raised significant privacy and trust concerns. As developers entrust proprietary code to services like OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, and GitHub Copilot, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Amir AL-Maamari

With software development increasingly reliant on innovative technologies, there is a growing interest in exploring the potential of generative AI tools to streamline processes and enhance productivity. In this scenario, this paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mariana Coutinho , Lorena Marques , Anderson Santos , Marcio Dahia , Cesar Franca , Ronnie de Souza Santos

In recent years, the rise of AI-assisted code-generation tools has significantly transformed software development. While code generators have mainly been used to support conventional software development, their use will be extended to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Simon Torka , Sahin Albayrak

The increasing use of large language model (LLM)-powered code generation tools, such as GitHub Copilot, is transforming software engineering practices. This paper investigates how developers validate and repair code generated by Copilot and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ningzhi Tang , Meng Chen , Zheng Ning , Aakash Bansal , Yu Huang , Collin McMillan , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Github Copilot, trained on billions of lines of public code, has recently become the buzzword in the computer science research and practice community. Although it is designed to help developers implement safe and effective code with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhensu Sun , Xiaoning Du , Fu Song , Mingze Ni , Li Li

The software engineering community recently has witnessed widespread deployment of AI programming assistants, such as GitHub Copilot. However, in practice, developers do not accept AI programming assistants' initial suggestions at a high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jenny T. Liang , Chenyang Yang , Brad A. Myers

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor AI, and Codeium AI into software development has revolutionized the coding landscape, offering significant productivity gains, automation, and enhanced…